Stop Parading Yourself as Secretary General, NANTMP Warns Prof Ifadayo Oyekole

The Special Meeting of the Major Traditional Medicine Stakeholders ended inconclusively in Osogbo yesterday as some Chieftains of the Association condemned in totality the leadership of Prof. Ifadayo Oyekole.

Addressing Newsmen at the City Hall, Olonkoro Osogbo in Osun State, the National President, United Herbal Practitioner, Prince. Sakariyau Oyedeji warned Prof. Ifadayo Oyekole to stop parading himself as the National Secretary-General of the National Association of Nigerian Medicine Practitioners (NANTMP).

Oyedeji, said, “Oyekole has been expelled from the Association once while the election that made him to be National Secretary-General was illegal”.

“He does not have constitutional right to be presenting himself as National Secretary-General as such an election held then was not in accordance with Association’s ethics”.

Oyedeji, added further that, “there was a court order as well stopping him to be parading himself all about as the National Secretary-General of the Association”.

Reacting, the Chairman Osun State Board of Traditional Herbal Medicine Practitioners, High Chief Idowu Esuleke also condemned in totality the action of Prof. Oyekole to be parading himself as the Secretary-General of the Association saying he should have done his thorough investigations before dabbling into such an illegal position.

Esuleke, who described the caretaker committee, being set up by Oyekole as illegal emphasised that he is the most recognised Board Chairman recognised by the government.

However, the Secretary, Osun State Board of Traditional Herbal Medicine Practitioners, Mr Samuel Moronkeji Bolarinwa has called on the members of the Association to demonstrate decorum.

“They were all elderly and respected persons, So, things must be done properly as its supposed to be in order to make the round peg to be in a round hole”, Bolarinwa added.

Meanwhile, efforts to speak with Prof Ifadayo Oyekole proved abortive as he immediately after the event left to unknown destination.